You would never think it but there are many people inside of nursing homes who want to die. Yes, you hear correctly. They want to die. And most times, the reason they want to die is because they feel that they have no freedom, no life and no control over their life.
How do I come to this conclusion? Well, peer into any bad rehabilitation and care center or into any bad nursing home and check out the conditions and atmosphere inside there. Look at the people who line the hallways in wheelchairs and look at their faces. Are they smiling? Probably not. Most of the time that people spend inside of bad rehab centers is the time of waiting. Yes. They wait. On most visits to these places, a visitor can see the patients and residents waiting for something. Some wait for their breakfast, while others wait for their medication. Others wait to be taken to the rest room and still others wait to have their diapers changed. Then there are those who just want to go downstairs to the lobby or to another floor and they cannot go without an escort, so they wait for an escort.
And they wait and wait and wait and wait. And one would figure that after working hard their whole lives they would probably want to reach a point where they do not have to be dependent on someone else's time schedule and they probably would want a time in their lives when they could be free to do what they want. But no, not when one resides inside a bad rehabilitation and care center and not when one resides inside of a bad nursing home. (No need for comments, I am not stating that they are all bad; I am writing this article about the bad ones only).
So, during all this process of waiting, some do want to die. Some actually express this in words, like let me die. So there are people inside of these horrible places that wish to die and they feel that will relieve them of the pain that they are experiencing. Yet, nothing is done about this waiting and this pain and this atmosphere. Instead of hiring more workers so that the patients do not have to wait the last years of their lives away, the places hire psychiatrists to find out what the problem is. The problem is the bad places are understaffed or they have staff that is not doing its job.
No mystery, problem solved. So by looking around we see the need for more nurses, more nurses aids, more health care workers and less psychiatrists inside of the bad nursing homes and inside of the bad rehabilitation and care centers. What is actually happening is that the atmosphere and the lack of the proper number of workers is actually making patients depressed. And then some, being depressed wish to die.
This past year, one resident was found on the grounds of a nursing home. The police stated that this was a probable suicide. This resident, according to the news had jumped out of the sixth floor window and thus was killed. To date, no one has heard an update on this probable suicide. And this happened in a nursing home in Staten Island, New York.
Here are some true stories according to the news articles:
Staten Island suicide at nursing home suicide is here : http://www.idph.state.il.us/public/press01/elmhurst.htm
And this one, an added horror - a murder-suicide at another nursing home
This past year, at least ONE resident at a Staten Island nursing home supposedly jumped out of a six floor window. I say supposedly because to this date, there has been no news of whether an official investigation was done or not.
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I created this article on June 1, 2008.
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